"A garden that pleases me is a garden…designed with deliberation" – David Hicks

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LESSONS FROM CHARLESTON S.C.

No cameras in the gardens! The only photography allowed was from the public sidewalk. Still there are many lessons to be learned.

All the gardens are small, tiny in fact, some no larger than a postage stamp.

In small gardens, design is more important than it is in larger landscapes; for here, there is a concentrated use of space. Also, because the space is limited and seen all at once, the details & planting must be faultless.

Consider the ground plane, it is significant in all seasons. Below, variety in materials & texture. This is a driveway.